Campaign Finance Related Items in Omnibus Spending Bill

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS
The legislation prohibits any funding to require that contractors bidding for federal contracts disclose campaign contributions. The Obama administration has openly flirted with issuing executive orders that would require contractors to provide campaign disclosures….

THE IRS
The scandal-ridden tax-writing agency comes in for special scrutiny this year. There’s no funding “to target groups for regulatory scrutiny based on their ideological beliefs or to target citizens for exercising their First Amendment rights.”…

Essay: Race or Party, Race as Party, or Party All the Time: Three Uneasy Approaches to Conjoined Polarization in Redistricting and Voting Cases, William and Mary Law Review (forthcoming 2018) (draft available)

After Scalia: The Future of United States Election Law, America-Ho (in Japanese, forthcoming 2016)